Last year, I checked Less wrong on the 27th, and found a message that told me that nobody, in fact, had pressed the red button.
When I saw the red button today, it took me about five minutes to convince myself to press it. The “join the Petrov Game” message gave me confidence and after I pressed it, there was no bright red message with the words “you nuked it all”
So no, not a trap. At least not in that sense—it adds you to a bigger trap, because once pressed the button cannot be unpressed.
Last year, I checked Less wrong on the 27th, and found a message that told me that nobody, in fact, had pressed the red button.
When I saw the red button today, it took me about five minutes to convince myself to press it. The “join the Petrov Game” message gave me confidence and after I pressed it, there was no bright red message with the words “you nuked it all”
So no, not a trap. At least not in that sense—it adds you to a bigger trap, because once pressed the button cannot be unpressed.